From the May 2005 issue of O Magazine, “Brain to Brain: How to Get Anyone to Agree with You.”
Howard Gardener, a Harvard cognitive psychologist and author says, “One interesting fact is that totalitarian leaders almost invariably have not traveled. Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. I think they didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.”
I was, maybe unsurprisingly, reminded of how little George W. Bush had traveled before becoming President.
It’s an unfair comparison, I know — and in some ways it just goes to prove Godwin’s Law — but there you have it.